netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] sctp: use transport hashtable to replace association's with rhashtable

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Date:	Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:40:14 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	lucien.xin@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, mleitner@...hat.com,
	vyasevic@...hat.com, daniel@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] sctp: use transport hashtable to replace
 association's with rhashtable

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 14:03:43 -0500

> You sure can disagree with me, but calling my opinion 'incredily
> stupid' is not wise.

I think fundamentally giving facilities less rather than more coverage
is not a smart approach at all.

If the code is that bad that people are discouraged from even using
it, then it should be moved to drivers/staging or removed.  Otherwise
it must work and we must be able to make use of it.

> I understand we would love to do that, but what is the hurry for
> SCTP, that needed rhashtable so desperately that it could not be
> done before 2016 ?

There is no rush, but quite frankly finding people to do serious
work on SCTP is no easy task so I'm hesitant to "defer" someone's
work in this area... :-)
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